we have four years without a budget, three yearsithout a budget -- three yes with a trillion dollar deficit. so we are talking about a problem that needs to be solved with massive spending cuts on the table. neil: i don't know what is really happening behind the scenes. but i do know that these overtures and hands that you get from the white house that the president is open and willing to consider spending cuts -- i don't know what the truth is. the other thing on this middle ground, the tax thing -- letting e difference of 37 or 38%. giving the appearance that there is a middle ground being found here, do you believe that? >> if you look at the middle ground and what is reported, they are giving specifics on taxes, but not stunning. they are saying that those tax cuts will happen 10 to 20 years from now. th is saying that congress at that time, 10 years from now, is going to agree with the spending cuts. listen, we are in this situation because coogress could not even agree on spending cuts you way when the sequester was going into effect and they failed as a super committee in november. t